Product Description: Twelve years from now, Canada could be a vastly different place from what it is today. Will the country still play a role in the United Nations? Will its citizens face tough environmental restrictions? How will we relate to our southern neighbours? Will Canada still be a democracy? In Canada in 2020: Twenty Leading Voices Imagine Canada’s Future, twenty of Canada’s leading commentators explore the ways in which this country is likely to change (or not) over the coming decades...read more

Product Description: November 2008 will mark a historic moment in American politics as the people of the United States choose their 44th president. At a time when dissatisfaction with the status quo has reached momentous proportions — regardless, in many cases, of partisan affiliation — and two Democratic party candidates have pushed race and gender boundaries, this election is primed to be particularly significant...read more

Contributions by leading academic writers including Bernard Lewis, Michael Ignatieff, and Robert Kaplan evaluate U.S. foreign policy since September 11, in an anthology of essays that explores such topics as the effort to bring democracy to the middle east, America's perceived rise as an imperial power, and America's potential for success.

Product Description: Ask a great question, spark a great debate.Does history matter? Is Canada a nation of too many identities? Where have all the heroes gone? Is there life after unity?The answers to these and other key questions are as varied and provocative as the writers who penned them: social commentators Neil Bissoondath, Barry Cooper, Charlotte Gray, Michael Ignatieff, Naomi Klein, and Peter C...read more